Increasingly, research finds that exposure to anesthesia in early
childhood may have long-term effects on kids’ brain development.
One 2011 study
linked exposure to anesthesia to learning disabilities, finding that
exposed kids had lower scores on standardized tests of reading, writing,
math and reasoning, and were more likely to have behavioral issues at
school. Another study
in 2012 found that children who underwent multiple exposures to anesthesia early on were twice as likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder as teenagers, compared with children with
fewer exposures to such drugs.
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